New horizons for fundamental physics with LISA

KG Arun, E Belgacem, R Benkel, L Bernard… - Living Reviews in …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has the potential to reveal wonders
about the fundamental theory of nature at play in the extreme gravity regime, where the …

Observations of protoplanetary disk structures

SM Andrews - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The disks that orbit young stars are the essential conduits and reservoirs of material for star
and planet formation. Their structures, meaning the spatial variations of the disk physical …

Seven temperate terrestrial planets around the nearby ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1

M Gillon, AHMJ Triaud, BO Demory, E Jehin, E Agol… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
One aim of modern astronomy is to detect temperate, Earth-like exoplanets that are well
suited for atmospheric characterization. Recently, three Earth-sized planets were detected …

Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

L Barack, V Cardoso, S Nissanke… - … and quantum gravity, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
70 AIM, UMR 7158, CEA/DRF, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Irfu/Service d'Astrophysique,
Centre de Saclay, FR-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Circumbinary accretion: From binary stars to massive binary black holes

D Lai, DJ Muñoz - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review recent works on the dynamics of circumbinary accretion, including time variability,
angular momentum transfer between the disk and the binary, and the secular evolution of …

The occurrence and architecture of exoplanetary systems

JN Winn, DC Fabrycky - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The basic geometry of the Solar System—the shapes, spacings, and orientations of the
planetary orbits—has long been a subject of fascination as well as inspiration for planet …

Origins of hot Jupiters

RI Dawson, JA Johnson - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Hot Jupiters were the first exoplanets to be discovered around main sequence stars and
astonished us with their close-in orbits. They are a prime example of how exoplanets have …

Rapid growth of gas-giant cores by pebble accretion

M Lambrechts, A Johansen - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012 - aanda.org
The observed lifetimes of gaseous protoplanetary discs place strong constraints on gas and
ice giant formation in the core accretion scenario. The approximately 10-Earth-mass solid …

Rapid and bright stellar-mass binary black hole mergers in active galactic nuclei

I Bartos, B Kocsis, Z Haiman… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) found direct
evidence for double black hole binaries emitting gravitational waves. Galactic nuclei are …

Shrinking binary and planetary orbits by Kozai cycles with tidal friction

D Fabrycky, S Tremaine - The Astrophysical Journal, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
At least two arguments suggest that the orbits of a large fraction of binary stars and
extrasolar planets shrank by 1-2 orders of magnitude after formation:(1) the physical radius …